[dnanian]

Hi, Arnaud. Your problems registering on the forums were likely due to your "spam-blocking" software. Every one of those whitelist things I have to respond to "by hand", which takes a lot of time, and I obviously can't do it until I read the message... in the future, if you "allow" all communication from Shirt Pocket, you'll be better off!

Onto the question:

There's no way that the volinfo.database could affect iPodRip -- all it does is track the "ownership status" of external volumes (ignored vs. used). I can't explain why it wouldn't launch, but you should check the Console and see what it's doing -- it might have a weird error or bug in it.

I don't know if SuperDuper! can back up an iPod, though. It might work, and it might not -- unfortunately, the only way to know for sure is to try... as I said in the other thread, I'm not hopeful -- but if iPodRip and the like can access the files, we should be able to, too.